POLE STAR MDA
Pole Star’s MDA platform is a comprehensive AIS integrated maritime data solution for those that require complete situational awareness.
Users can track, monitor, and query the progress of any vessel utilising secure satellite data, alongside satellite and terrestrial-based AIS data. Our patented tracking technology creates a hybrid track of a selected vessel, ship details, and more, for actionable intelligence that empowers time critical decisions.
Who can use MDA and how?
Governments: MDA provides a data management platform for those associated with Homeland Security to rapidly and accurately collect and correlate maritime geospatial data. Utilising secure satellite data (including LRIT, VMS, and SSAS sources), alongside satellite and terrestrial-based AIS data, our patented technology creates a hybrid track of not only a user’s domestic LRIT vessels, but also their non-SOLAS fleet and any maritime asset operating and reporting within the desired area of interest.
This intelligence can be used in homeland protection, customs enforcement, port authority inspections, and by other maritime authorities for the detection of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, accidents and their investigations, dark ships, and transshipments within Exclusive Economic Zones, Territorial Seas, Fisheries, and Closed Area Zones.
Financial Markets: Used in conjunction with Pole Star’s regulatory technology, PurpleTRAC, through the new single sign-on feature, MDA gives commodity traders, insurers, ship charterers and organisations with exposures to shipping and cargoes full visibility of their marine assets and logistics. MDA identifies global shipping trends, and monitors vessel movements, port activity, weather, and trade flows with the most accurate and up to date vessel data available.
Shipping & Offshore: For commercial operators, charterers and brokers that require world-wide, competitive situational awareness; MDA offers the data, actionable intelligence and global visibility needed to increase competitive advantage. The platform provides shipping companies with the ability to monitor their own ships and 3rd party vessels, and provides an additional playback facility.
How does MDA work?
Using MDA’s wide range of features, users have the ability to thoroughly investigate a vessel’s real-time, historical, and ongoing journey at a granular level, for the continuous monitoring and mitigation of potential risk.
With the upcoming launch of the single sign-on feature, PurpleTRAC users can easily navigate to MDA to extend their sanctions compliance investigations.